Scarce Quotes

187 Scarce quotes by 155 unique authors

There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but… — Benjamin Franklin
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by. — Charles Lamb
Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a… — Alessandro Manzoni
Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers for the undoing… — Richard Baxter
It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them… — Wangari Maathai
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a… — Mark Twain
When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and… — Michael Short
Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty - no… — Unknown Author
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth:… — Edmond Halley
Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed. — Amy Hempel
But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury… — William Bradford
The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to… — Henry Hazlitt
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off… — George Reisman
I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English. — David Brainerd
Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to… — Walter E. Williams
Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources. — Greg Mankiw
Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for… — Jacque Fresco
It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource, not because we… — Richard Louv
Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings us full circle… — Rebecca Adamson
Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant story itself brings… — Val Plumwood
Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth… — Henry Vaughan
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings… — Peter Drucker
As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. — Benjamin Franklin

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